Hat-pouncing machine



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J. T. WARING.

. HATPOUNGING MACHINE. No. 439,314, Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. W'ARING, OF YONKERS, NEXV YORK.

HAT -POUNCING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,314, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed March 20, 1890. Eerial No. 34L,669- (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN T. WARING, of Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Machines for Pouncing Hats, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the ac companying drawings.

In carrying out my improvement I employ in combination with a rotary hat-block rollers having pouncing-surfaces and which revolve in opposite directions to each other.

I will describein detaila machine for pouncing hats embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation,partly in section,of a machine embodying myimprovement. Fig. 2 is aplan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the pouncing-rollers and their bearings employed in carrying out my improvement.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates a frame having atable A 5 B, the main or driving shaft journaled in said frame. 7

B designates a hat-block mounted on the upper end of a vertical shaft B journaled in suitable bearings in the frame and deriving motion from a belt 17, passing around a pulley b on the vertical shaft and about a pulley b on the driving-shaft B.

C O designate the pouncingrollers, which may be, longitudinally considered, of any suitable form, such as conical, curved, or, as in the example of my improvement shown,straight. These rollers are journaled in suitable j ournal-boxes o a, loosely mounted in a square yoke d, which forms part of a hand-lever D, which is fulcrumed by a ball-and-socket or universal joint cl in a standard (1 on the main frame of the machine. The hand-lever D is provided intermediate of the yoke d and the fulcrum cl with a resistance device consisting of a plunger d sliding in a suitable way CF against the resistance of a spring 61 At its opposite end the hand-lever D is provided with a handle D. The pouncing'roller O is provided with a pulley C and derives motion from a belt or band 0 passing around said pulley, direction-pulleys c and a driving-pub ley E on the main shaft. The band or belt a would preferably be of slightly-elastic material, which, with the spring-connection of the hand-lever hereinbefore described, would permit of a slight longitudinal yielding of said hand-lever, thereby permitting said pouncin g-rollers to adapt themselves to the shape of the block B. v

The aforesaid pouncing=rollers C O are provided with gear-wheels e e, engaging with each other and causing the opposite rotation of the rollers. This produces an effect on the hat equal to that gained by hand-rubbing, which is necessarily avery costly process, and a far superior effect to that of reversing the direction of the rotation of the hat-block, which is a common practice in the attempt to attain this result The lever D can by means of the universal joint d be moved in any direction with regard to the block B, thereby enabling the pouncing-rollers C O to be brought into any position at the top or the side of the hat, so that every portion of the hat can in turn be operated upon.

The rollers C 0 maybe of any suitable ma terial, either resisting material-such as india-rubber or the like or non-resisting material-such as wood, metal, &c.and are preferably provided on their peripheries with sand-paper or similar material. In the case of the rollers being non-resisting material, as in the example of my improvement shown, I provide their respective journal-boxes with resistance devices consisting of springs or rubber buffers, as shown more clearly at 6 Fig. 3, in order to give the rollers ayielding movement toward and away from their work in a direction transverse to their axes.

It may be stated that by my improvement I produce a machine that will be equally applicable' to the pouncing of soft or stiff hats.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine for pouncing hats, the combination, with a rotary hat-block, of rollers having pouncing-surfaces and geared together to rotate in opposite directions to each other and a movable support common to both rollers, substantially as specified.

2. In a machine for pouncing hats, the combination, with a rotary hat-block, of rollers having pouncing-surfaces and geared together to rotate in opposite directions to each other, a movable support common to both rollers, and a yielding bearing between said rollers and support, substantially as specified.

3. In a machine for pouncing hats, the combination of a rotary hat-block, a lever constructed with a yoke, two pouncing-rollers and bearings for the same in said yoke, and gearing between said rollers whereby they are V producing the rotation of the said rollers.

JOHN T. WARING. Witnesses:

W. M. BALDWIN, L. W. KETCHUM. 

